What we are asked before signing.

Forming a company abroad, moving your tax residence and choosing a low-tax jurisdiction are entirely lawful operations, on three conditions: declaring what must be declared in your country of origin, having real substance where you are incorporated, and not using the structure to conceal anything. What is unlawful is fraud — undeclared accounts, false beneficial owners, nominees. We work only on the first ground.

Considerably less than most agencies will let you believe. As long as you remain tax resident in France, Belgium or Switzerland, your income remains taxable there, foreign company or not, and the controlled foreign company and place-of-effective-management rules apply. What remains useful without relocating: a multi-currency collection structure, a properly placed EU holding company, or a reorganisation of your existing company. We will tell you during the diagnostic rather than after invoicing.

No, and that is the first thing to correct. Since June 2023 the UAE has applied a 9 % corporate tax above AED 375,000 of annual profit. Tax registration is mandatory even where the applicable rate is nil, accounts must be kept, and the preferential free zone regime is subject to strict qualifying income conditions. Personal income tax does remain at 0 %. It is still highly favourable, but it is no longer the absolute zero sold in some advertising.

For a foreign national settling in Switzerland for the first time, or returning after ten years' absence, and who carries on no gainful activity in Switzerland — that last condition rules out most entrepreneurs still trading. Tax is computed not on your actual income but on a deemed base, taken as the highest of seven times the rental value of your home, your actual worldwide expenditure and the statutory minimum: CHF 435,000 federally and CHF 426,357 in Geneva in 2026, with a 10 % uplift for wealth on the cantonal side. The base is negotiated canton by canton, as a ruling, before you arrive.

Yes, by two routes. The first runs through your sole trader registration: it requires GEL 50,000 of income received over twelve consecutive months, which in practice means the permit arrives in year two, once the activity is demonstrated. Government fees depend on the processing time requested, from thirty days down to ten, and the first permit is issued for one year, renewable — three years for IT profiles. The second route is real estate investment: the threshold rose from USD 100,000 to USD 150,000 on 1 March 2026. A residence permit is not a tax residence certificate: that still requires 183 days of presence.

That is the question that matters. Allow two to eight weeks after incorporation for a fintech account, and six to sixteen weeks for a traditional bank, with a real risk of refusal throughout. We prepare the banking file before incorporation and tell you at the diagnostic stage whether your activity profile is bankable in the jurisdiction envisaged. If the answer is no, we do not sell the structure.

If you already know exactly which jurisdiction, which licence and which bank you want, a local agent will indeed be cheaper and that is what we will recommend. Our value lies in the decision, not the filing: the choice between jurisdictions, the fit with your original position, a clean exit from your current country and the follow-up over several financial years. And the contract is written, with an identified remedy.

From the outset we build an evidence file — leases, invoices, presence records, board minutes, proof of effective management — designed precisely for that eventuality. We are neither lawyers nor tax representatives and cannot represent you in a procedure; we work with tax lawyers in our clients' principal countries of origin and the file is transferable to them as it stands.

The diagnostic lasts 45 minutes. The feasibility file is delivered within seven to ten business days, and its fee is credited in full if you proceed. Execution is billed in two instalments: half at launch, the balance on delivery of the official documents. Government fees are committed with your written approval and rebilled to the cent, with receipts. No commission is taken on those fees.

No. We decline files whose source of funds we cannot verify, those aimed at escaping a tax procedure under way, a seizure, a divorce or a court decision, and those that assume a nominee intended to mask the beneficial owner. Our client due diligence applies to everyone, without exception, and a refusal is notified in writing.